Obamacare may not have enough enrollees to stay solvent

Washington Times ^ | November 11, 2014 | Tom Howell, JR.

[Cementjungle]

No problem, Obama can simply use his pen to divert all SS retirement benefits into the program to keep it afloat for a while.

[dfwgator]

And 401Ks.

[Cementjungle]

True... it’s completely unfair for some people to have savings when others have nothing. So unfair, I would even have to call it racist. Obama, being the kind ruler that he is, will probably allow us to cough up our 401K’s and not go to prison for having them. All hail Obama!!!

[Beagle8U]

“Policy advisers at the Health & Human Services Department estimated that 9 million to 9.9 million people would enroll through the exchanges — or only a slight increase over the 8 million that the administration says were active at the end of the first enrollment period this April. The Congressional Budget Office, which is the government’s official scorekeeper, had predicted the law would need 13 million customers on the exchanges.”

Except the revised facts say only 7 million are on the exchange now, and it is quite likely that is all that there are that are too effed up to get insurance any other way.

Remove the extended Medicaid enrollees from that and you have at most a couple million that have health issues that prevented them from affording insurance.

So the best healthcare system in the world is destroyed to force taxpayers to buy insurance for an unlucky few.

This problem could have been solved much cheaper and easier.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Let the damn thing wither on the vine.”

It won’t. Once it gets past a certain date, it becomes too big to fail. It has to be publicized now so Republicans will force the issue.

[Turbo Pig]

Here’s my prediction -—— there will be no IRS hounding of those who do not have coverage this year, maybe next. There won’t be any government prosecutions of taxpayers who don’t/can’t pay a fine, they won’t even check income against subsidies paid. All this won’t come due until January 2017.

This is where the Repubs should destroy the libs and obama. First bill passed in 2015 should be to enforce the obamacare law, "as it was written". Make the libs and obama regime spin not enforcing the greatest peice of legislation ever passed. Done properly, 2016 should see dems hit by another wave and obamacare repealed soon after.

[TexasTransplant]

**** “People can opt out by paying a fine.” *****

I am not going to pay the fine either! FUBO

TT

[CSM]

Whatever happened to the actual plan for 30-40 million? Oh well, who cares, so long as we have this wonderful tool for tyranny.....

[VTenigma]

Paging Claude Raines, Claude Raines pick up the white courtesy phone please.

[musicman]

"Obamacare may not have enough enrollees
to stay solvent"



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[Amagi]

The smart move for the libtards would be to throw all that are in violation of the ObamaCare-Tax-that-is-Not-a-Tax in jail, right?
Let's ask Genius-Jonathan-(Goober)-Gruber what we should do now.

[lurk]

Now is the time to permit companies to compete nationwide with econo health plans that are consumer accessible.

[BubbaBobTX]

The website alone has cost over $2.2 billion that works out to around $6.2 million for every man women and child in the country. It would have been cheaper to give every one a couple of million dollars to pay for their medical care.

[Beagle8U]

Better check your math.

[MrB]

Well, to quote my favorite benchmark liberal -

“sometimes you HAVE to force people to do the right thing”

[what's up]

Even on DU there are many people who are dismayed by the deductibles.

LOL. I think we're in for another couple months of lousy headlines for the ACA.

[The Duke]

JUST_PRINT_MORE_OBAMA_STASH_PING!